Just how long can you brine Cornish game hens before they shrivel up like prunes? On Monday I set out to cook two of them for our supper and started brining them, as the recipe I was attempting suggested.

Then Fred pipes up: “Can we eat now?”

“No problem,” I think. “We’ll have them tomorrow.”

“Tomorrow” we went back to Ikea for more furniture and ate pizza at a place where we had a coupon.

So our hens still sit in the refrigerator in their salt water bath, 48 hours later.

Results later today!